Dodgers MVP Freddie Freeman has lifted the lid on the dark side of the team’s World Series celebrations, revealing that one of the players’ wives needed stitches after being hit by a flying beer bottle.
LA beat the New York Yankees in five games to win the championship, and they headed out for a parade around the streets of LA in the aftermath.
While it was good-natured in the most part, Freeman revealed to Travis and Jason Kelce on the New Heights podcast that there was one unsavory moment while the players and their families partied on the buses.
When asked by Travis if any beers were thrown at them, Freeman replied: ‘Yeah, we actually had one of them hit one of our wives. It’s dangerous.
‘She got stitches… you can’t see [the beers coming] at all. They throw the little fireball shots too, and you’re getting plunked in the head all over the place. I had my kids with me, so I’m trying to block them… it’s dangerous.
Freddie Freeman was on New Heights to tell the Kelce brothers more about LA’s big win
The Dodgers players and their families head through the streets of LA on their big parade
Things turned ugly for Daniel Hudson’s wife Sara (right, in 2018) after she was hit by a bottle
‘She took it like a champ, she got stitches and moved on.’
The WAG in question was revealed to be Daniel Hudson’s wife Sara, after the team’s pitcher Joe Kelly appeared on his Baseball Isn’t Boring podcast with more details.
‘The nice thing was there was less beers thrown at people so no one really got hurt, except one person got hit in the head, Daniel Hudson’s wife,’ Kelly said.
‘She got smoked, right in the noggin. She was bleeding, she wore a wrap, but she was a trooper, she powered through the parade and then went to [outfielder] Mookie’s [Betts] World Series party at his house.
‘She powered through and made it through the whole day.’
Freeman revealed that the players had beer bottles thrown at them by their jubilant fans
Shohei Ohtani’s dog Decoy stole the show as he was lifted up to the fans in Los Angeles
Daniel Hudson was one of the Dodgers’ relief pitchers during the World Series, eventually winning his second title after success with the Washington Nationals back in 2019.
At the end of the season, he announced his retirement from the sport at the age of 39, having played for seven different teams in a 15-year career.
He previously hit the headlines with the Nationals after he opted to leave the team for a playoff game in order to attend the birth of his child.
Hudson was slammed by an ex-baseball official for prioritizing his family, while others praised him for ‘realizing that baseball is just a game.’
Hudson decided to retire at the end of the season after pitching during the World Series win
Magic Johnson waves at fans from the front of a Dodgers bus as he celebrates the title
Then on $5.5m a year, the Nationals placed him on paternity leave so he could be there when Millie, the couple’s third child, was born in Scottsdale, Arizona.
He then returned to the team and went on to win the World Series that year.
‘I went from not having a job on March 21 to this huge national conversation on family values going into the playoffs,’ he told reporters at the time.
‘Life comes at you fast, man. I don’t know how that happened and how I became the face for whatever conversation was going on. Everybody’s got their opinions, man, and I really value my family and my family time.’
